This Project Grant award of $434,993 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The funding supports research using high-throughput sequencing of the immunoglobulin loci to develop refined risk stratification methods for pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). The project aims to advance understanding and treatment of this pediatric cancer, with an expected completion...
This federal Project Grant award of $972,555 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The grant will fund the establishment of a comprehensive registry for atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor, a rare and aggressive pediatric brain cancer, over the period of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2029. The registry will support advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military...
The federal Project Grant award of $624,000.00, provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program, supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public. The award, with a performance period from September 1, 2025, to August 31, 2027, will fund a comprehensive in vivo phenotyping study of fusion-driven pediatric rhabdomyosarcomas conducted by the...
This federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $1,474,039.00 to the Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) to conduct pharmacological research aimed at preventing pediatric hydrocephalus. The award period runs from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2029. CHOC, a non-profit pediatric healthcare institution, will leverage its expertise in advanced medical research to investigate innovative...
This Project Grant award for $616,710.00, provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports the Children's Research Institute in Washington, D.C. in designing effective adoptive immunotherapy for high-risk pediatric medulloblastoma. The research aims to develop a rational combination with MRI-guided focused ultrasound technology to enhance this innovative cancer treatment approach. The award period runs from August 1, 2024...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,528,727.00 Project Grant to Children's Research Institute, a subsidiary of Children's National Medical Center, to develop SGT-53, a novel nanomedicine that crosses the blood-brain barrier and augments immunotherapeutic response in pediatric brain cancers. This grant, funded through the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform healthcare for Service Members and the...
The Department of Defense's Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program has awarded a $1,746,810 Project Grant to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to conduct research on "Combination Therapy for High-Risk, MYCN-Amplified Neuroblastoma". The award period runs from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The research aims to transform healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public by investigating innovative medical solutions to address...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $1,249,009 Project Grant to the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant, awarded on August 15, 2023, funds a 4-year project titled "MORE EFFECTIVE, KEEPING IT SAFE: REPEAT OHSV TREATMENT FOR GLIOMA" to conduct medical research and development related to improving treatments for glioma, a type of brain cancer. As a non-profit research institute, the...
The Children's Research Institute received a $709,638 Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The grant will fund research efforts from May 2021 through April 2024 to enhance T-cell immunotherapy treatments for pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors. The Military Medical Research and Development program supports biomedical research that transforms military and public health...
This federal Project Grant award for $1,399,812.00, provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), supports advanced biomedical research aimed at transforming healthcare for military service members, veterans, and the broader public. The grant is awarded to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct research on outcomes and late effects in pediatric and adolescent germ cell tumor survivors. This funding will enable...